Gateway has unveiled three enterprise storage products for entry level users in small to medium-size businesses, mid-sized businesses and educational institutions. The new products include a storage area network (SAN) called E-842R and two automated tape backups, the E-824R and E-826R. The new storage products have been designed to be both affordable and scalable. The E-842R serves as an entry point into storage area networking, flexible enough to use either high-performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) or low-cost, high-capacity serial attached ATA (SATA II) hard drives. The two tape backup products are both in Gateway's SuperLoader 3 family, designed to avoid human error by automating all backup tasks except for physically inserting or removing tapes from the autoloader.The tape backup system is available at US$2,499, while the E-842R SAN will be available July 13 at a price of $6,599.

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It is advised to load any type of backup utility on your mobile devices, for the safety of data. Sprite Backup is the best pick for Windows Mobile devices. It has advanced backup options and reliability. Another remarkable feature of Sprite Backup is its, ability to restore after a ROM update. Sprite Backup is available for US$29.95. Resco Backup is recommended, if you have a device running the Palm OS. Resco Backup is the fastest, most complete, and reliable backups. The application even, supports encrypted backups and individual file backups to safeguard your information. Resco Backup is prized at US$14.95.

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There are increased efforts of data backup software vendors who continue to make advancements to cut down the time required for data backup. The exponential organizational storage allocation requirements, is posing a challenge in this front. Testing has revealed that the time required to backup data from hard drive volume to backup devides can be decreased and the backup data transfer rate can be increased by defrag-job, prior to backup. The study conducted to determine the effects of fragmentation on backup operations and benefits of defragmentation by Diskeeper Corporation revealed that; in addition to defragmenting this test case, consolidating directories had a further benefit on backup performance. Backup times for ARCServe were improved by an additional 3% for the local disk backup, and an additional 41% for the network disk backup.

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In the wake of a hard drive crash, one looses all valuable data, unless backed up. The situation demands easy-to-use backup program, for home computers. The new Norton Save & Restore ($69.99), of Symantec has remarkable properties of simplifying the process of making regular backup of valuable data. Norton's Save & Restore enables you to pick out individual file folders and, individual files that you wish to copy for safekeeping. You can create customized backup jobs, with it. The only drawback is the high cost of the program, is putting off many prospective sales. If the price is lowered the backup program would be a boon to millions..

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InfoPro, an IT research company, conducted a study, has shown that the accumulating data to be stored is increasing day by day. And this is posing a challenge to the IT sector. 9% of companies with data backup systems are spending $1 million on data backup software and 10% of companies with data backup systems spend around $5 million annually on backup hardware. This phenomenal growth has led storage professionals turning to Virtual Tape Technology.

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The beta version for the Mac remote computer access service has been announced by SoonR. The service enables to use cell phone to remotely access information from your computer. It supports accessing and sharing documents, placing phone calls via Skype, secure Spotlight searches and works with many of the cell phone models.

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Backup specialist CMS has come with an instant disaster recovery product for laptops and desktops.The new version of the back and recovery software ABS Plus plug in drives for laptops and desktops are preconfigured with Bounceback Professional 7.0. Usage of these 2- products easy and requires just plugging in one of the box, to backup your whole system. In subsequent sessions ABS Plus will back up only the changed files
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If your laptop drive is crashed completely use the Bounceback case to swap it for the dead one in your computer. If the drive is working but with problems, from dodgy software or virus, then you can plug in the backup drive and restore it to the normal state. ABS Plus notebook drives are available in capacities of 40GB to 160GB, with USB2, Firewire, or PC Card interfaces. But, if you want to back up an entire disk you need an ABS drive of high capacity because of the need to archive dead files.

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Genie Soft Inc, a commercial solution for backup and security software solutions, has come out with ‘Genie Online Backup’ offering all-in-one backup and recovery solution. With this for the first time, users are enabled to backup anything, anywhere, anyway they like. The speciality of Genie Online Backup is, it is controlled through a highly flexible and user-friendly wizard-based backup utility that supports enterprise level backup and recovery features
such as data encryption, open files backup, cataloging, 64-bit Zip compression, advanced reporting options etc.

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Paragon Software Group, a Germany based provider of innovative software solutions in the field of storage management and data security, has launched the Paragon Drive Backup 8 Personal for real-time disk backup.

For home users Paragon's imaging technology, integrates new powerful features offering quick system recovery. The Paragon Drive Backup 8 creates backup image of the entire hard disk, with all of their preferences settings, applications and data files of the entire hard disk with a single click.

Paragon's exclusive HotBack(TM) technology performs "real-time" hard disk backup. Users are enabled to restore their entire system including all installed and configured applications, valuable documents and files - without any need for application reinstallation. Paragon Drive Backup 8 Personal consists of Differential and scheduled Backup, Volume Explorer, strong data verification and enhanced encryption making it an effective solution for all users.

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For backing up data, Holographic media is seen as the next-generation optical storage candidate, surpassing current DVD formats ( current DVD formats can store upto 3.9 terabytes). Blu-ray and HD-DVD's gets more data on to a disc than a conventional DVD by using shorter wavelengths of light to store more data in the same space. HVD ( Holographic Versatile Disc ) uses two lasers (green and red) and two layers on the disc. Optware is set to release a 30-GB holographic versatile card by the end of 2006 for less than a dollar. But the skeptics are doubtful of the lifespan of HD-DVD over the current DVD formats, which has a long span.

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LAN discovery tool is helpful to service providers and enterprise level users, in aiding them to lower their customer’s storage costs and help customers identify their data to be stored before they subscribe. Enterprise users can use it to reduce the volume of ROBO ( remote office/branch office ) data to be backed up, gleaning a better understanding of changing frequency of data at remote sites. A LAN discovery tool is designed to analyze idiosyncrasies and characteristics of data behaviour at ROBO sites, providing in-depth understanding about the ROBO data before it is secured. By placing a LAN discovery tool at each remote site customers can have their data analyzed to differentiate the ‘critical’ data (essential for day-to-day use) from the ‘important’ data (less frequently used but still needed).

Lastly, by using a LAN discovery tool to thoroughly analyze the storage network before investing in a backup management solution, enterprises can implement policies and procedures that will help manage corporate data while controlling costs and optimizing storage resources.

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